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General Subjects => Plants Wanted Or For Exchange => Topic started by: goofy on September 20, 2009, 01:23:47 PM

Title: Leucojum vernum carpaticum wanted
Post by: goofy on September 20, 2009, 01:23:47 PM

hey,
just look for some "growing"
L. vernum carpaticum    :)
and L. vernum vagneri

no dry corms
to buy (or exchange)

thanks

Title: Re: Leucojum vernum carpaticum wanted
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on September 20, 2009, 04:11:01 PM

Quote from: goofy on September 20, 2009, 01:23:47 PM

just look for some "growing"
L. vernum carpaticum and L. vernum vagneri; no dry corms

Partially dried out, flabby bulbs (n.b. not corms) of Leucojum vernum can be re-established. Soak them in water until they plump up and become hard to the touch, like a narcissus bulb, then put them up in damp, clean, washed sand. If you add a systemic fungicide such as benomyl (no longer on the market, however) to the water, so much the better.

You may have to soak them for a week or ten days to fully rehydrate them; change the water every couple of days in that case.

There will be losses, but as long as the bulbs haven't become totally desiccated, they will mostly revive under this treatment.

Title: Re: Leucojum vernum carpaticum wanted
Post by: goofy on September 20, 2009, 06:25:13 PM

tks Rodger,

pls see sep. PM

goofy